Bucharest Parks

Sightseeing in Bucharest: What should be labelled essential?

by Craig Turp August 16, 2011 Bucharest

 As part of what will be a fairly serious overhaul and rewrite of the What to See section in Bucharest In Your Pocket, we are currently reconsidering what should be labelled as ‘Essential Bucharest.’ Right now, these are currently our ‘Essential Bucharest‘ picks: Arc de Triumf Bellu Cemetery Casa Poporului George Enescu Museum Grigore Antipa [...]

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Romania is such a wealthy country that…

by Craig Turp August 15, 2011 Bucharest

 And to think that many foreigners have the idea that Romania is poverty-stricken place. Oh no, Romania is such a wealthy country that in Bucharest’s Parcul Tineretului they can afford to spend money on what we can only describe as ‘auxiliary outdoor air-conditioning.’ As for the ongoing playground wars we wrote about a few weeks [...]

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Scenes (or seeds?) from Parcul Titan

by Craig Turp June 20, 2011 Bucharest

 We love Bucharest’s parks, but we really are fed up with the discarded shells of sunflower seeds that get left under almost every park bench. Here’s a quick selection of scenes from the otherwise faultless Parcul Titan, taken on a quiet Sunday morning… We’ve said it before and we will say it again: surely it [...]

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Bucharest In Your Pocket 71

by Craig Turp June 3, 2011 Bucharest

 Here is the rather splendid cover (even if we do say so ourselves)… This issue we have features on Bucharest’s Parks & Gardens, the Romanian version of Monopoly, Calea Victoriei and the usual 14-page bumper Old Town/Lipscani section. You can download a PDF version of the guide here. You can view it on Scribd in [...]

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Bucharest’s parks: My playground’s bigger than yours

by Craig Turp May 24, 2011 Bucharest

 Judging by the enormous adventure playground which recently went up in Bucharest’s Tineretului Park (about 100 meters from another enormous adventure playground, which went up last year), we can only assume that the various administrative bodies who look after the city and its parks are having a serious ‘whose got the biggest’ contest. Luckily, it [...]

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It looked good on paper: The Bucharest that never was

by Craig Turp October 18, 2010 Bucharest

 We have lost count of the number of ambitious Bucharest real estate projects announced by optimistic property developers over the past few years that have gone absolutely nowhere. From the much-disputed Dambovita Centre (why did anyone bother protesting against it? Any fool could have seen it would never be built) to the luxurious aqua park [...]

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Bucharest’s parks; Bucharest with kids

by Craig Turp May 7, 2010 Bucharest

 Last summer we posted a rather detailed description of Bucharest’s best parks. To all intents and purposes, what we wrote then remains valid today: the best parks in the city are not the much celebrated Herastrau or Cismigiu, but instead the less celebrated (and less central) Tineretului and Titan. Most visitors never get so far [...]

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